Who are you going to believe?

[BootinUp]

Excerpt from: Who are you going to believe?by Garret Bucks

If you haven’t heard about the creepy AI necklace that claims to be your friend, the first half of this sentence tells you just about everything you need to know. They are real, I guess, though they exist less as actual physical objects than as subjects of discourse. Avi Schiffmann, the creepy necklace’s 22-year-old wunderkind founder, spent an unholy sum of money on a search engine optimized web address and splashy advertisements in New York City and Los Angeles. He made a terrifying video about young people talking to their sycophantic necklace buddy. He wants you to talk about his creepy AI necklace. He doesn’t care what you say. He may have already pivoted away from the necklaces, actually, towards a run-of-the-mill dystopian chatbot. It’s hard to keep track. He’s smarter than you, you see. He understands not just that all publicity is good publicity but that, in this moment, attention is the most valuable currency.

Full article https://open.substack.com/pub/thewhitepages/p/who-are-you-going-to-believe

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Lucky me, I never heard about this before.

The fears that AI is going to take over everything is quite unfounded.

[BootinUp]

2. It's a long piece, more to it than that.

[slightlv]

3. I have a deep seated concern about AI.

They may not take over everything, but they may be employed by those who already own much of everything now to ensure they own more in the future. They're influencers to the worst degree. We can't get past the "I am Destroyer" phase of any new item, it seems. Some really good ideas that could be put to the use of the betterment of mankind will always be turned toward the darkside first. And, as with the fake AI pics, some can do immeasurable harm. AI... well... I don't think my brain is creative enough to even come up with all the ways it can be turned to the darkside. And I'm not talking about Skynet.